From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
Date:
16 July [1860]
Source of text:
Magdalen College, Oxford (MC:F26/C1/118)
Summary:
Confirms CGBD’s impression given in a letter to J. S. Henslow that CD in the Origin did not touch directly upon the final causes of sexuality, which CD considers one of the "profoundest mysteries in nature". CD is inclined to stress sexuality as the means of keeping forms constant and checking variation although he grants its role in the origination of varieties. [See 2869.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project